From the Bishop of the Lexington KY Diocese:
A powerful op-ed by Lexington Bishop John Stowe. “I am ashamed that the actions of Kentucky Catholic high school students have become a contradiction of the very reverence for human life that the march is supposed to manifest.” https://t.co/P8ImxTaKZ9
— HL Opinions (@heraldleader2) January 24, 2019
Without engaging the discussion about the context of the viral video or placing the blame entirely on these adolescents, it astonishes me that any students participating in a pro-life activity on behalf of their school and their Catholic faith could be wearing apparel sporting the slogans of a president who denigrates the lives of immigrants, refugees and people from countries that he describes with indecent words and haphazardly endangers with life-threatening policies.
Bishop Stowe is someone you could describe as “Walking the Walk”. As one of the few African Americans that work in the Diocese, he has reached out to me personally on a few occasions(after Charlottesville is an example) to listen to how I felt, and to discuss ways to help others understand the plight of the oppressed in our society. Sure, he is still a member of the leadership of the Catholic Church, and what comes with that. But from my experience, he is more progressive than even our best examples of Pope Francis. Bishop Stowe, is more like a Bishop in the Episcopal Church than in the Catholic Church.